<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Supreme Court today rejected a plea seeking a fresh investigation into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A bench comprising justices SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao dismissed the plea by Pankaj Phadnis seeking re-investigation on the basis of fresh material which the petitioner said was not available earlier. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The amicus curiae Amarinder Sharan, who had examined the material brought by Phadnis, also did not favour any re-investigation into the killing of Mahatma Gandhi. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr Sharan was appointed amicus curiae by the court and was asked to examine the material produced by the petitioner and give his opinion.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div class="adL" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>
News On AIR | March 28, 2018 1:40 PM
SC rejects plea for fresh probe into Mahatma Gandhi's assassination